Name: Essentials: Strauss’ Don Quixote
Start: 2025-06-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-06-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Het Concertgebouw

Admin

Concertgebouworkest

Het Concertgebouw

Conductor

Han-Na Chang

Instrumentalist

Santa Vizine

Viola

Tatjana Vassiljeva - Monnier

Cello

Orchestra

Essentials: Strauss’ Don Quixote

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Public

Don Quixote

Jnanakumar P

Approved

Accordionist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass

Singer

Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

Soprano

Countertenor

Tenor

Contralto

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

The Essentials series introduces you to the masterpieces you will be happy to know, performed by the world-famous Concertgebouw Orchestra and complete with a lively introduction by the incomparable Thomas Vanderveken. At Essentials we welcome a new generation of music lovers, and the concerts typically have a pleasant informal atmosphere.

Richard Strauss was unrivalled in his ability to make the most fantastic scenes come to life in music. Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote served as Strauss’s inspiration for his Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character. The adventures of the knight-errant and his faithful squire, as heroic as they are hilarious, come to life as the orchestra’s principal cellist Tatiana Vassilyeva and principal violist Santa Vižine, with support from the tenor tuba and bass clarinet, join their orchestra in battle. But who are they fighting? Windmills, sheep and, of course, the knight of the bright moon.

Essentials starts at 9 p.m. with an imaginative introduction to the programme (in Dutch).

English

Essentials: Strauss’ Don Quixote by Strauss, From (2025/2025), Conductor Han-Na Chang, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Programme, About & Synopsis

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